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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The predator featured in Chapter 1 watches Neil throw rocks at what type of object?
(a) A window.
(b) A jungle gym.
(c) A television.
(d) A bench.

2. In Chapter 11, Tom has a nightmare about his father throwing what object at Tom's mother's face?
(a) A knife.
(b) A glass.
(c) An iron.
(d) A medicine ball.

3. What is the name of the worker at the 567 Club who is kind to Jake?
(a) Sharon.
(b) Kate.
(c) Jeffrey.
(d) Melissa.

4. How many dead children's bodies were found in Frank Carter's house?
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

5. Which character bullies Jake by saying that Jake had taken Neil Spencer's classroom chair?
(a) Matt.
(b) Tabby.
(c) Owen.
(d) Lucas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What event occurs that prevents the girl in the checked blue-and-white dress from clarifying the meaning of the rhyme she told to Jake?

2. Nearly all of the pictures Jake draws are of what types of scenes?

3. What type of facility is the 567 Club, where Jake is introduced to the reader for the first time in Chapter 3?

4. In Chapter 15, Frank Carter tells Pete that he had a dream about which character?

5. How many months have passed since Neil Spencer's disappearance, according to Pete in Chapter 10?

Short Essay Questions

1. For what reason has Tom worried about the trajectory of his career in the wake of Rebecca's death?

2. How did Jake learn about the death of his mother, Rebecca?

3. What event occurs at the end of Part Two that causes Tom to call the police?

4. Why do the other officers involved in the search for Neil in Chapter 2 consider Pete's presence odd?

5. With what sentiment does the writer of the prologue end his address to his son Jake?

6. What aspect of Jake's drawing bothers Tom in Chapter 8?

7. In what way does the final line of Chapter 1 refer back to the novel's title and why?

8. Describe the man who rings Tom's doorbell at the end of Chapter 13 and meets him at the start of Chapter 14.

9. What does Jake tell his father Tom in Chapter 11 that convinces Tom to honor the boy's request to sleep in his father's bed?

10. Provide evidence for the conclusion that Pete is a determined man.

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